let go of the past

The past is nothing. Do not seek to lay the blame for deprivation on it, for the past is gone. You cannot really not let go what has already gone. It must be, therefore, that you are maintaining the illusion that it has not gone because you think it serves some purpose that you want fulfilled.

For the ego holds the past against you, and in your escape from the past it sees itself deprived of the vengeance it believes you so justly merit.

The past is gone; seek not to preserve it